Ecosystems

Ecosystems

Let's learn Ecosystem vocabulary!

Biotic factor

living things, like plants, people, bacteria, and animals are called biotic factors

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a biotic factor?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a biotic factor?

Abiotic factors

An abiotic factor is a nonliving thing in an ecosystem like rocks, water, air, sand, temperature, and light.

Multiple Select

Which of these ARE abiotic factors?

• rocks

• air

• light

• plants

Producers

Producers are biotic factors that use sunlight to make their own food.

Consumers

Consumers are biotic factors that can not produce their own food. They consume, or eat, plants or animals as their food.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a producer?

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a consumer?

Consumers

There are three types of consumers - herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores

Herbivores

Herbivores eat plants, no meat

Carnivores

Carnivores eat meat only.

Omnivores

Omnivores eat meat and plants. What else do bears eat?

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a carnivore?

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an herbivore?

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an omnivore?

Predator/Prey

Another word for predator is hunter.

The animal that gets caught/hunted/eaten is the prey.

Multiple Choice

Which of these animals is the predator?

• eagle

• fish

Multiple Choice

Which of these animals is the prey?

• eagle

• fish

Decomposer

A decomposer is an organism like bacteria or fungus that breaks down dead things like leaves that have fallen or dead animals in the forest

organism

An organism is a living thing - a plant, animal, cell - biotic factor

Open Ended

List all the organisms that you can see in this picture.

the number of a certain type of organism in an environment. For example, The population of deer in the Yosemite state park forest is 20,000.

The population of deer is increasing.

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Multiple Choice

What is the number of a type of organism in an ecosystem called?

• community

• population

• predators

Poll

Do you understand biome vocabulary?

• Yes!!!

• No!!!

• A little